From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Deniz Dogan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Discouraging C-g in the same way C-h is discouraged Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 01:11:51 +0200 Message-ID: <4E73D7B7.2060905@dogan.se> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1316214761 4303 80.91.229.12 (16 Sep 2011 23:12:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 23:12:41 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 17 01:12:37 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R4haG-00068f-VA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Sep 2011 01:12:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50435 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R4haG-0001Zb-DD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 19:12:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:58672) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R4haD-0001ZT-Vh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 19:12:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R4haD-0000Ti-5w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 19:12:33 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp04.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.153.5]:47099) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R4haC-0000Ta-Vy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 19:12:33 -0400 Original-Received: from c80-216-107-100.bredband.comhem.se ([80.216.107.100]:63562 helo=[192.168.0.11]) by ch-smtp04.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1R4hZd-0006U3-DS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Sep 2011 01:11:58 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20110902 Thunderbird/6.0.2 In-Reply-To: X-Originating-IP: 80.216.107.100 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1R4hZd-0006U3-DS. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp04.sth.basefarm.net 1R4hZd-0006U3-DS eedbbe40f20b527fcd0f512024ab2252 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.76.153.5 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:144075 Archived-At: On 2011-09-16 21:50, Edward O'Connor wrote: > Hi, > > (elisp)Key Binding Conventions contains the following text, discouraging > mode authors from binding C-h: > > * Don't bind `C-h' following any prefix character (including `C-c'). > If you don't bind `C-h', it is automatically available as a help > character for listing the subcommands of the prefix character. > > I think it should similarly discourage authors from binding C-g, for the > similar reason that users might often begin a key sequence and then want > to stop before completing the sequence. Some users hit ESC in such a > situation, while others hit C-g. > I thought it said that somewhere already. Does it not?